An assassin slit the throat of Egypt’s last great pharaoh at the climax of a bitter succession battle, scientists said on Dec. 17 in a report on a 3,000-year-old royal murder.
Forensic technology suggests Ramses III, a king revered as a god, met his death at the hand of a killer, or killers, sent by his wife and ambitious son, they said.
A cadaver known as the “Screaming Mummy” could be that of the son himself, possibly forced to commit suicide after the plot, they added.
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Computed tomography (CT) imaging of the mummy of Ramses III shows that the pharaoh’s windpipe and major arteries were slashed, inflicting a wound 70mm wide and reaching almost to the spine, the investigators said. The cut severed all the soft tissue on the front of the neck.
“I have almost no doubt about the fact that Ramses III was killed by this cut in his throat,” palaeopathologist Albert Zink of the EURAC Institute for Mummies and the Iceman in Italy told AFP.
Ramses III, who ruled from about 1188 to 1155 BC, is described in ancient documents as the “Great God” and a military leader who defended Egypt.
He was about 65 when he died, but the cause of his death has never been clear. History shows, though, that the plotters failed to derail the line of succession. Ramses was succeeded by his chosen heir, his son Amonhirkhopshef.
(AFP)
科學家十二月十七日公布長達三千年之久的王室謀殺案報告,指出埃及最後一位偉大的法老王在激烈的王位繼承爭奪戰高潮中,遭刺客割喉喪命。
科學家表示,鑑識技術顯示拉美西斯三世,一位被當作神祇般崇敬的國王,遭妻子與野心勃勃兒子派來的一名或多名殺手暗殺。
他們提到,名為「尖叫木乃伊」的遺骸,或許就是拉美西斯三世的兒子,可能在密謀殺父後被迫自殺。
調查人員表示,電腦斷層掃描影像顯示,拉美西斯三世的氣管和主動脈遭劃開,出現七十公釐寬的傷口,而且幾乎深至脊椎。這一刀割斷拉美西斯三世前頸所有軟組織。
義大利木乃伊與冰人研究院古病理學家辛克告訴法新社:「我幾乎能篤定說, 拉美西斯三世是遭割喉喪命。」
拉美西斯三世在位時間約為西元前一一八八年至一一五五年 ,在古文件中被形容為「偉大的神」與捍衛埃及的軍方領袖。
他去世時約為六十五歲,但死因不明。歷史顯示,圖謀打亂王位繼承者最後失敗,拉美西斯的王位還是由他選定的繼承人、他的兒子阿蒙赫霍謝夫繼承。
(法新社/翻譯:陳維真)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
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